6/26/2023 0 Comments The flash omnibus vol 1![]() ![]() ![]() About the Author Born in Hueytown, Alabama, Mark Waid has earned his living as a lounge singer, a magician, a disc jockey, an accountant, and in many other ways, but none of them as eclectic-or fun-as writing comic books. with a reimagining of the first meeting between Wally West and Barry Allen, and their first adventure together where Barry gives Wally his own Flash costume- Book Synopsis Mark Waids classic run on The Flash begins here! The Flash is here and he is born to run! Collecting some of the most iconic tales from Mark Waids run this first volume of the omnibus collection is one you cannot miss! Starting with a reimagining of the first meeting between Wally West and Barry Allen-and their first adventure together where Barry gives Wally his own Flash costume! This omnibus collects The Flash #62-91 The Flash Annual #4-6 Green Lantern#30-31, #40 The Flash Special #1 and Justice League Quarterly #10. ![]() ![]() About the Book Collecting some of the most iconic tales from Mark Waids run, this first volume of the omnibus collection is one you cannot miss. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Lombard street by walter bagehot![]() ![]() ![]() It is a masterpiece of economics, described by J. Central bankers and finance ministers such as Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin in the U.S., along with leading IMF officials should each sleep with a copy under his or her pillow" (Charles P. ![]() Lombard Street, first published in 1873, is more than ever timely in the age of Asian financial flu, Long-Term Capital Management, problems in Russia, Brazil, and on the horizon elsewhere. "Walter Bagehot was a great economist and a great writer-though there is a question as to which was the greater. Though similar in many ways to its American counterpart, this "unequalled fund of floating money" nevertheless possesses a character all its own, the essence of which was brilliantly captured more than a century ago in Lombard Street. Fast-paced and highly-charged, it is a hotbed of financial activity whose impact is felt not just nationally, but globally. The English precursor to Wall Street, London's Lombard Street is the original district of finance and the birthplace of the money market. First edition of this "undying classic" (J.M. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Montana Rose by Mary Connealy![]() In the Montana Territory of 1875, sweet and na���ve Cassie Griffin''s abusive husband dies, leaving Cassie no choice but to choose a new husband the same day she buries her first. Barbour (Anchor, dist.), $10.97 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60260-142-0Christian novelist Connealy (Petticoat Ranch) writes to tickle the funny bone and tease heartstrings with the first in her newest series, Montana Marriages. ![]() Connealy digs deep into the hearts of these three powerful characters to make an extraordinary tale that left this reader in complete awe., Montana Rose Mary Connealy. Then there is Red and Wade, one cannot help but be torn between these two remarkable men. ![]() I could only feel compassion for Cassie and her problematic life. She made the story so factual that I wanted to jump through time after reading how women were treated. Mary Connealy pens a read so true to form in the Wild West. Women who like marriage-of-convenience stories will read this book to see if the love of God and one determined man can change a woman''s heart., Montana Rose was a thrilling read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sowon enrolls in school and devotes himself to his studies, desperate not to be cast off. “Hello? Hello? Who is it?”įinally, Sowon catches a break when Mr. My throat closed up and I couldn’t speak. Finally, a slow, clear voice said, “Hello?” Maybe he’d bought a new cell phone after giving me his, and was still using the same number … There was probably no point, since he’d given me his phone and Uncle Jongu had broken it, but I dialed, cautiously hopeful. ![]() There was only one number I hadn’t tried-Mr. I had grown out of my sneakers, so I was wearing them with the heels folded down-like slippers. My jacket was too thin and my jeans were too small-my ankles were bare. Snow swirled into the phone booth through the gaps around the door. They ultimately abandoned him, moving away without telling Sowon their new address and changing their phone numbers lest he attempt to find them. Sowon’s life spiraled downward under his relatives’ mistreatment. Ahn, his father’s roommate when he was a guard at the Seryong Lake dam, protected Sowon after his father’s incarceration and before Sowon’s relatives took him in. Sowon is the son of a convicted murderer, the man responsible for “The Seryong Lake Disaster.” He was 11-years-old when his father was arrested. ![]() Dark, disturbing, and full of twists and turns, Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong is a riveting new novel about a son forced to deal with punishments resulting from the sins of his father. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The 7 wives of hugo![]() ![]() Monique begins to feel a strong bond with the great actress. Monique is summoned to Evelyn’s lavish apartment and listens intently as the actress explains her story.Įvelyn tells a story of relentless ambition, surprising camaraderie, and great forbidden love, from her arrival in Los Angeles to her choice to quit show business in the 1980s, and, of course, the seven husbands she had along the way. Regardless matter why Evelyn chose her to write her biography, Monique is determined to make the most of this chance. ![]() ![]() Her spouse has divorced her, and her professional future is bleak. Monique isn’t exactly in the best of moods. No one was more surprised than Monique herself when she picked obscure magazine writer Monique Grant for the position. Evelyn Hugo, a reclusive and ageing Hollywood movie star, is finally ready to reveal the truth about her bright and controversial life. ![]() ![]() He also talked about the 2-hour Timeless series finale, which shoots in October and will air on NBC, whether fans will feel satisfied, and if he could see the story continuing, in some form, as well as his upcoming Amazon series The Boys, adapted from the comic books by Garth Ennis, and how it reflects what’s going on in our world today.Ĭollider: I had so much fun with this movie!ĮRIC KRIPKE: Oh, good! Thank you so much. Zimmerman ( Cate Blanchett), he also accidentally awakens the dead, wreaking havoc in his new but otherwise sleepy little town.ĭuring this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, screenwriter/producer Eric Kripke talked about getting to turn his favorite kid’s book into a movie, why The House with a Clock in its Walls is so special, how influential this specific story has been on his own writing, throughout the years, how many Supernatural Easter eggs made it into the film, and whether he’d like to keep the Barnavelt adventures going. ![]() ![]() As Lewis discovers a hidden world of magic, mystery and the supernatural, and gets to know Jonathan’s best friend and neighbor, Mrs. ![]() From director Eli Roth and writer Eric Kripke, and based on the novel by John Bellairs, the family fantasy film The House with a Clock in its Wallsfollows recently orphaned 10-year-old Lewis Barnavelt ( Owen Vaccaro), who goes to live with his rather eccentric Uncle Jonathan ( Jack Black) in a creaky old house full of all sorts of magical wonder. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Haunted by Rayne Hall![]() ![]() All the events and characters are my inventions, yet they're steeped in Bulgarian myth and reality.The tales in this book belong to the 'quiet' horror category - more creepy than gory, rich in atmosphere and suspense. ![]() ![]() I've blended my personal experiences with Bulgarian folklore and mythology, and let my imagination roam. Welcome to Bulgaria, my adopted country in the south east of Europe, a land of snow-blanketed mountains and sun-baked plains, deep pine forests and fragrant rose plantations, studded with remnants of past eras - ancient Thracian and Roman, medieval, Ottoman and Communist.Join me on a fictional journey to remote villages where you'll meet native Bulgarians, travellers and expatriates, demons and ghosts. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments No country for old men book cover![]() ![]() The tale then leaps among the hunted (Moss), an escaped killer (Anton Chigurh), whose crimes include double-crossing the drug cartel from which the money was taken, the Army Special Forces freelancer (Carson Wells) hired by druglords and-in dogged pursuit of all the horrors spawned by their several interactions-the intrepid, however flawed and guilty, stoical Sheriff Bell: perhaps the most fully human and sympathetic character McCarthy has ever created. Then the focus trains itself on Vietnam vet Llewellyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles upon several dead bodies, a stash of Mexican heroin and more than $2 million in cash that he absconds with. Here, the story’s set in 1980 in southern Texas near the Mexican border, where aging Sheriff Bell, a decorated WWII veteran, broods heroically over the territory he’s sworn to protect, while-in a superb, sorrowful monologue-acknowledging the omnipresence of ineradicable evil all around him. ![]() It’s a bleak chronicle of murder, revenge and implacable fate pocked with numerous echoes of McCarthy’s great Blood Meridian (1985). Almost as frustrating as it is commanding, McCarthy’s ninth (and first since the completion of his Border Trilogy: Cities of the Plain, 1998, etc.) is a formidable display of stunningly written scenes that don’t quite cohere into a fully satisfying narrative. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Lady susan austen![]() Described by her sister-in-law Catherine Vernon as “ delicately fair” possessing “ an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliance,” these positive attributes may be the only compliments that she receives in the whole novel. The story centers around its titular character, Lady Susan Vernon, a very recent widow in her mid thirties. ![]() The manuscript would remain unpublished until 54 years after her death with its inclusion in the appendix of her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh’s biography of his aunt, A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. In 1805, she transcribed a fair copy of the manuscript but did not pursue publication in her lifetime. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young author was in her late teens and represents her first attempts to write in the epistolary format popular with many authors of her time. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. ![]() Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Labyrinth book borges![]() ![]() This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. ![]() Umberto Eco's international best seller The Name of the Rose is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library", which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labelled Borgesian. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Now, new in audio and completely unabridged, the collection that made Borges a household name in the English-speaking world. ![]() |